Oh man. Justice Sunday III. It’s coming to Philadelphia – my fucking hometown. How dare they. I heard from a friend that it would be in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, but forgot about it until I read this interview by Matt Stoller of MyDD of Michael Schiavo which mentioned it’s coming.
A dKos entry announcing the change of date from December 4th to January 8th as reported on DefCon Blog in November.
The event is Sunday January 8, 2006 at The Greater Exodus Baptist Church which is at 714 N. Broad St. It’s from 7p-8.30p and a second serving from 9p-10.30p. That’s wildcard weekend for the NFC and the Iggles will probably not be partaking in those festivities, so Philly should represent well there; Philly is rather anti-all this extremist Right wing crap.
As of right now, the only esteemed speakers announced for the event are the venerable Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family and the pious Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. Rev. Herbert Lusk of the GEPC will also be speaking. I’m not familiar with Rev. Lusk’s past other than this brief bio, he was a back for the Eagles in the 70s.
I have no idea as to the full agenda, but this is the skinny from the invite Perkins sent out for a pastor-only breakfast in Philly earlier this month:
The Theme is “Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land” (Lev 25:10).
Over the last forty years the courts have systematically chiseled away at the religious liberty of Americans. From the Pledge of Allegiance to the motto on our coins to the public display of the Ten Commandments, the Christian foundation of our nation is at risk. More than ever before the spiritual leaders of our nation must stand united in defending the foundation of our liberty – the Christian faith.
Good God. Our nation is at risk here. All of us, not just Christians. Wackjobs cannot be making decisions for all of us, from any extreme.
I plan on being there, camera gear in hand.
I, for one, cannot wait to see and hear what you have to report!
PS albert, I heard somewhere that you are but 25 chronological years of age…can this be so?
boy o boy — you mid-twenties folk (I’m thinking of Man Egee and ejmw here too) sure make me feel chronologically challanged!!
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Indeedy I am a ripe 25. 26 in under 2 months.
and lots of encouragement for you to keep on doing what you’re doing!
With permission, I’d like to post a link to this diary over at Street Prophets; I think this would definitely be of interest to the folks over there, and posting it now would give folks a few weeks to gear up. (Not sure how many folks over there hang out over here…)
cross/re-post away!
next Open Thread over there (or if PD has a Short Hops this afternoon)…
at both Street Prophets and Talk To Action — hope we’ll get plenty of turnout that day; would be nice if the folks outside outnumbered the folks inside…
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The only attack on liberty in the United States has come from the likes of Dobson, et. al, and their intellectual progenitors. They apparently can’t accept the fact that our founders, with a lot of experience of religious wars and religious intolerance and piles of dead human beings due to religious lunacy, wanted to create a government that would actually be, as Lincoln said years later “of the people, by the people and for the people” Madison, Jefferson, Adams and many other founders had the existence of the Puritans in New England as a great example of just what they wanted to avoid in a new United States. Madison said (to paraphrase) that we in America would have no end of the ills of Europe if we followed their example and had an established state religion. Our founders started an experiment in self-government based on the naive belief that people could govern themselves and that the validity of that government could be based on their consent. Prior to that in England and all the rest of Europe government was based on some hemophiliac scion of some first cousins getting married and spawning claiming that he ruled by the divine right of kings. Yup, just like Dubya, all the kings of Europe claimed to rule because God picked ’em. If the divine right of kings is true, God is a dumb shit.
Now Dobson and his fellow travellers want to make their lunatic definition of Jesus into the king of America. Hey, whack jobs, get over it. Jesus isn’t an American citizen. Your fantasy of what He is doesn’t count.
Great comment Phronesis. About ten great comments.
but alert your state reveue bureau to this – it might violate the church’s tax-exempt status.
Cedwyn maybe your onto something here.